Woodinblack

or put your wrist on the pickup cover? I must admit to not being a fan of covers. The look good on the right basses, but I don't really get their point apart from that retro look. The squier 70s P bass I have came with a bridge cover, but that got in the way of where I want to put my wrist to damp the strings sometimes. Looked good though.

Yes I think the plain would be good, anything with a bit of contrast, however low. the other issue with the splayed ones is that the dark points look like knob markers, so should be in the same place!

Guess it depends how you play - I don’t have too much trouble with a pickup cover on a p as you can go in front or behind it. Going to be pretty striking on stage!

I love those knobs on their own, but on the body like that they are a little camouflaged. They would look great on a dark or un-spalted light surface, but there maybe a bit lost? with the pickups and hole being dark (are they pickups or holes? I am on my phone so can’t see), dark knobs could contrast nicely, either way though they are fantastically done - wish I could do something like that

I had a rockinbetter that I changed the pickup on to one where the pickup pole didn't go over the E properly and its output was very down on that string, so much so I had to change the pickup. It could have been just a rubbish pickup though! If you don't need one though, that would be good to know, the options for blade P pickups are limited.

Its really interesting - I am doing a 5 string P bass, and I was assuming I would need to get a rail pickup. Interesting if a normal 4 works instead. Blue and orange is funny, they are my wifes 2 least favourite colours. I remember once we got new mobile phones from orange, it came as blue and orange, my wife opened the box and cried, 'its so ugly!'. There is noway I would be able to put that in my house!

Seems a bit elaborate to fake a mex geddy lee jazz for £300? If you were going to fake one wouldn't you fake the american one?

QCAD is quite good for small things, but grinds to a halt for big stuff. I used qcad to design my Fireman that I just finished Draftsight has a free version that works well

To be fair, he did have an career before, in that he was full time touring - the Stephen Fry thing just helped a lot.

Their website started working again, so now I have ordered some strings - thanks for that.

because you can put things under a syn drum kit, unlike a real drum kit

I am like that with a guitar. Can pick one up and play pretty well (which is lucky as i have a few) but when I get back on a bass it is all good. Maybe you are just meant to be a drummer?

Unfortunately it seems their website is dead, I will try emailing them

OK - so i got one and now I can't find any 5 string short scale sets. Surely someone must make them?

I haven't seen Marta doing it either. I genuinely don't, I am genuinely just seeing you complaining that this woman is trading on her looks and miming. WTF?? Now I am not allowed to have an avatar that I want because I am hiding behind a cartoon? I wasn't aware that someone had died and made you the avatar police. Maybe I am am concerned that people like you would think I am just trading on my good looks?

It would be better than when my wife did some cheese knobs..

Wood? Are you sure that isn't some very small cheeses?

Same here, I slowed the video down on the 'were not so different anyway' fill, it too me ages to get that bit. So if she is miming, she is miming well enough for me to learn how to play it by her finger positions!

I would be dead if I tried it!

Interesting though as I am doing exactly the same at the moment, but I haven't got to that point yet, I have got to the base coat of paint after the primer and the 'But it looked like the same colour in the shop' stage. This stage: So I was going to put a transparant pick guard over it.

You spray painted the bass in your living room???

Umm.. lets think. Oh, I know, the woman that the thread was about! Fancy that, that was easy. I know she had the audacity to be a woman, and not covered from head to toe in a hessian sheet (damn hussy) and more talented than probably the majority of people on the forum. Must be just because she is a girl though. Other women.. how about Nita Strauss on the guitar? No? Tal Wilkenfeld? No? I know there are a lot of women on youtube that get interest because they are women, and I know the comments on youtube are awful, they are on all videos, its a type of madness to read the comments on a youtube video, but that is hardly the fault of the person on the video. It is the scum that mainly women have to put up with on youtube videos.

So I seem to have bought myself a short scale 5 string bass, currently with E-C strings, so I need to get some B-G strings. Looking around I can't find any 'normal' 5 string bass sets in short scale. I did find that labella do short scale flats and tapewounds, but I want normal roundwound strings suitable for a short scale maruszczyk. I suppose I can email maruszczyk and ask them, but surely someone must do them somewhere as they are not unheard of.

Now there is a mental image that is probably not required...

I don't know, modern progressive music is quite progressive, and certainly more progressive than old progressive music, which is a bit dated, except they all tend to use old moog lead sounds, which sound a bit... regressive!